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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






2. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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3. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.






4. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






5. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






6. Final stable syllable

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7. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






8. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






9. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






10. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






11. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






12. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






13. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






14. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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15. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






16. Closed syllable






17. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






18. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






19. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






20. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






21. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






22. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.






23. Whole body learning






24. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






25. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






26. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






27. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






28. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu






29. Wide Range Achievement Test






30. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






31. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






32. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






33. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






34. Multisensory Structured Language Education






35. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






36. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






37. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






38. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






39. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






40. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






41. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






42. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






43. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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44. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






45. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






46. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






47. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






48. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






49. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






50. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable







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